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You couldn't have missed my point more completely.
What I am saying has nothing to do with the majority, moral or otherwise. For that matter it has nothing to do with anyone buy myself. When I talked about a moral compass, I meant my own moral compass.
To your example - if the people around you attach a stigma to you having AIDS, you might want to get around some new people. But if you're afraid that other people will stigmatize you for having AIDS, that speaks much more about you than it does about them.
Why not try being yourself and letting the people who are offended get offended? Then they'll stay that much farther away from you. I would say you'll be in better company in the long run.
If you believe you have a reputation to uphold, you will consequently be limited by your self-centered perspective of others' opinion of how you're "living upto" that reputation. Why live based on what other people think?
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